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ON SEEDLINGS 



Msesa argentea, Wall 



Hypocotyl short, erect, terete, glabrous, -75-1 mm. long 



Cotyledons small, ovate or oval, obtuse, entire, petiolate, glabrous, 

 green, one-nerved ; petioles short, channelled above. 



Stem erect, terete, herbaceous, ultimately woody, stout, pubes- 

 cent ; 1st internode about 1 mm. long; 2nd l - 5-2mm. ; 3rd, 4th, 

 and 5th rather longer. 



First leaves simple, cauline, alternate, exstipulate, petiolate, 

 oblong, acuminate, coarsely serrate, covered when young with a 

 minute pubescence, afterwards apparently glabrous, green, distinctly 

 pinnatinerved ; petioles stout, deeply channelled on the upper face. 



Embelia Bibes, Burm. (fig. 502). 



Primary root normal, but soon superseded by strong adventitious 

 roots from its base, or from the base of the hypocotyl. 



Hypocotyl erect, terete, densely and finely glandular-pubescent, 

 pale green spotted or striped with brown, 2-2*5 cm. long. 



Cotyledons ovate, obtuse or subacute, indistinctly alternately 



incurvinerved and reticulate, 

 distantly serrate in the upper 

 half, tapering into a petiole, 

 bright green and shining 

 above, much paler beneath, 

 and dotted with sunken black 

 glands, thinly glandular- 

 pubescent at the margins 

 when young ; lamina 1*4 1*5 

 cm. long, 9-5-11-5 mm. 

 wide ; petioles semiterete, 

 slightly furrowed above, finely 

 glandular-pubescent, forming 

 a slight rim around the 

 stem at their base, 2-5-8-5 

 mm. long. 



Stem erect in the young 

 state, terete, finely glandular- 

 pubescent, subflexuose, pale 

 green minutely dotted witn brown, ultimately woody and scandent ; 

 1st internode 2-25-5 mm. long ; 2nd 3-5-5 mm. ; 3rd 2-5-4 mm. 



Leaves alternate, alternately incurvinerved, and indistinctly 

 reticulate, rather thick, shining on both surfaces, bright green 

 above, paler beneath and glandular, thinly glandular-pubescent on 



FIG. 502. Embelia Bibes. Half nat. size. 



